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'Twas but a dream of thee
Titania, Queen of the Fairies
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Out on a limb
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Hi all.
AW will be down for a significant part of the weekend, to undergo reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. We're looking at upgrading quite a lot of stuff, including a full version or so of VBulletin, and otherwise improving the stability and performance of the system. You can see how the new Vbulletin stuff will look and feel at Not Written in Stone. I'll post updates at the AbsoluteWrite Twitter Feed, and the AW LiveJournal community. The AW Chat room will be open all weekend, too. Roger's Refugee Camp has been a home away from home for stranded AWers, for years. I'm trusting he's willing to host us again, as well -- I'll post that link as soon as I have confirmation from Roger. I'm planning to pull the plug tomorrow morning, and we'll hopefully be back online by Sunday afternoon -- or by Monday afternoon, in a worst-case scenario. Last edited by MacAllister; 09-04-2009 at 11:03 PM. |
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delicate #!&@*#! flower
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: At some altitude
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Oi. Good luck, people. May the Force be with you and all that. This high-tech stuff gives me the vapors.
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Doom Bunneh holds breath. Mightily.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Not hitting refresh on my inbox. Not hitting refresh on my inbox...okay, hitting refresh on my inbox
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*gasp*
Oh noes! Of course, this would be significant'y MORE painful if tomorrow wasn't the first full day of college football. With the help of the NCAA and ESPN, I should be able to survive. barely. I got dibs on harassing Robovowels on Facebook! neener neener neener!
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'Twas but a dream of thee
Titania, Queen of the Fairies
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Out on a limb
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One third of an unholy trinity
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Echelon, starting the revolution to bring about the Golden Age of PWNography.
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Oh great. Well this just puts the tin hat on a shitty week. Yippee.
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shocked kitteh iz shocked
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Far from a beach, writing beach reads.
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Eek!
Of course, this means that I'll actually finish my short story WIP instead of goofing off on AW. Maybe.
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Darling Angels
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SW Indiana, US
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Cheers
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I feel cold...
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I wanna crap in the hat next!
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Tennessee
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Remember, if the withdrawal gets to be too much for any of you, there's the Crisis Call Center (now being outsourced to India). Or booze.
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Darling Angels
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SW Indiana, US
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Don't forget chat.
I won't be there!
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Is this thing on?
Join Date: Dec 2007
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One third of an unholy trinity
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Echelon, starting the revolution to bring about the Golden Age of PWNography.
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I feel sick.
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I wanna crap in the hat next!
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Could be the swine flu. Now that would really be a way to end your shitty week.
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One third of an unholy trinity
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Bring it on, couldn't get much worse.
Oh, wait. tt42 will be on MSN later. Yay.
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the original blond bombshell
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Well crap. I guess I'll just have to beta that Ms I have sitting in my in-box. Thanks for the warning though. So we don't all hyperventilate.
MM
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One third of an unholy trinity
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Echelon, starting the revolution to bring about the Golden Age of PWNography.
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Enforced cold turkey is the only way I'm gonna kick this place.
Oh, AW, there just ain't no quittin' you.
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ima nannoing ful!
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Oh, goody! More time I can spend at hotsweatyleathermen.com!
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Trick or Treat? You Decide...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Giants Stadium, baby, waitin' for Springsteen to hit the stage!
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There goes my only good reason for not finishing revising my current WIP. crap.
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Why do we dream?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: My villain is more Diet Coke than your villain.
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I'm shaking already *Reaches for the caffeine*
Maybe I'll have to fire up the chat and help run some refugee writerly talkness. |
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a more different S
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Closer than you think.
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My god, how will I procrastinate???
Guess I'll have top stop by the store and get a few bottles of vodka to get me through. ![]() Good luck with the upgrades!
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WIP research w/ helper
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and thanks for keeping this site going.
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Every time I see this thread title, at first I think it says "Planned server outrage."
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One third of an unholy trinity
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Yup, that's exactly what we've got right here.
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Transcendent Bum
Join Date: Dec 2006
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No, it actually says "Planned severe outage."
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Darling Angels
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"Planned Severe Outrage"
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